Word: forte
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Europeans have long looked down their well-bred noses in disgust at America and its minority problem. Now they can look inward to search for the solution. Loretta T. Scheffer Fort Walton Beach...
...City of Boston allowed Farrell to use Fort Strong on Long Island as a set for the movie. The fort held prisoners of war during World War II and has since been inactive. One other structure, a hospital for the chronically ill, stands on the other side of the island, leaving Fort Strong almost completely isolated, thus making it a perfect set for a movie...
...belong to the Harvard Classics Basketball Club, a 10-year-old student-run organization whose members are out for "a fun time playing basketball in a relaxed atmosphere." The all-male Classics play teams such as the Harvard and Tufts j.v.s, Dean Junior College, Rhode Island Community College and Fort Devens Air Force Base, as well as prison teams like Concord State Prison and Walpole...
...serious work" or "serious writer," begins to be used more and more, with less and less attachment to objective judgment. Such a mood, curable by pouting, is an occupational hazard, and is not the kind of thing that attracts outsiders to the seminars. As Phyllis Cartwright, director of Fort Lauderdale's Main Library, put it, "People enjoy these seminars because they can hear authors discuss their feelings, what causes them to write." Or as Novelist Anne Bernays (The Address Book), who came from Boston to speak at lunch, said, "People think if they can touch and talk...
...Keystone Korner, is selling nicely, thanks. He has also become a musician whose talents are much in demand for session work, as well as a concert performer whose travels, starting last month at Mikell's in New York City, are keeping him hopping from Manhattan to Helsinki to Fort Worth. Home for a jazz musician, it is worth remembering, is the place where music flourishes, which is not always the same location as one's birthplace or current address...